Machine for co-operating with record receiving tapes



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MACHINE FOR COOPERATING WITH RECORD RECEIVING TAPES Original Filed March 17. 1925 rf2 J. 4. INVENTOR flaw i011 A. Pro afar ATTORNEY Patented May 24, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MACHINE FOR CO-OPERATING WITH REC- RD RECEIVING TAPES New York Application March 17, 1925, Serial No. 16,203 Renewed February 16, 1937 7 Claims.

This invention relates in general to machines for co-operating with record receiving tapes such as ticker tape, and more especially to machines for cooperating with endless tapes or films.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a machine co-operating with record receiving tapes such as ticker tape, and more especially with an endless tape, film or the like, whereby the tape may be passed through a stock ticker or the like for receiving printed matter such as stock quotations and the like, and the tape then passed through a bath for removing the printed matter, and finally treating the tape to prepare it to be returned to the printing machine or stock ticker.

Specifically this invention contemplates the provision of a machine co-operating with an endless tape, composed of a transparent material such as celluloid, cellophane or the like, whereby 20 a portion of the tape may first receive printed matter, then have this printed matter projected, and finally have the printed matter removed.

These and other features, capabilities and advantages of the invention will appear from the subjoined detail description of one specific embodiment thereof, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine; Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of the same;

Fig. 3 is a fragmental detail showing part of the driving mechanism; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmental detail showing one of the guide rollers used when the endless tape is provided with perforations along its edges.

A projecting machine is illustrated and designated as l, which in the present instance has a plurality of lamps and a plurality of projecting means through which extends the film to be pro- 40 jected, in the present instance an endless tape 2 of paper or an endless strip of celluloid, cellophane or the like.

One of the main objects of the present invention is to use an endless strip with a projecting machine for projecting stock quotations and the standards 5 and 6, which support beneath the platform 4 an elongated trough member I having a bath chamber 8 at one end and an elongated heating chamber 9 at the other end.

In the course of operation, the tape, in the present instance, an endless tape is mounted to travel from the ticker 3, where it receives printed matter, to the projecting machine I where the printed matter is projected and then the tape passes to a suitable ink removing means in the present instance, the bath chamber 8 where the printed matter is dissolved and washed off, whereupon the tape passes to the heating chamber 9 where the tape is dried to prepare itfor again receiving printed matter in the ticker.

The liquid in the bath chamber 8 may consist of carbon tetra-chloride or any other ink dissolvent, depending upon the ink being used on the tape.

For guiding the tape in its cycle aforesaid, the ticker is provided with the usual guide roller II], which may also be the drive roller, from which the tape passes to the rollers H and I2, indicated in a general way as the printing mechanism, after which the tape with its printed matter facing upward is bent a complete ninety degrees at 26 to pass through and between the rollers i3 and I4, which apply pressure to the tape and confine the turn in the tape between the said pressure rollers and the stock ticker. The tape then passes to the projecting machine I there to face the projecting lenses in proper position. From the projecting machine the tape passes through the guide rollers l5 and i6 and then receives another ninety (90) degrees bend at I! so that its printed matter faces downwardly to pass over the guide roller I8 from which the tape passes to the guide roller i9 into the bath chamber 8, and then over to the guide roller 20 at the otherend of the bath chamber 8. 'Ihereupon the tape passes upwardly to the guide roller 2| above the bath chamber 8, and then horizontally over the guide roller 22 down into the heating chamber 9, under the guide roller 23 and then along through the heating chamber 8 to the guide roller 24 and then upwardly back to the guide roller I0, but before returning to the guide roller i 0 making a complete one hundred and eighty degrees bend at 25, so that the proper surface of the tape will again be in position to receive printed matter.

Of course, in some instances, both faces of the tape may be used alternately, in which case the bend at 25 may be omitted.

With the present machine it is desirable that the bends 26 and I! of the tape turn in the same direction so that the surface of the tape receiving the impression 50 in the ticker 3 will be facing upwardly when it passes out of the pro jecting machine and will again face upwardly when it leaves the bath and thus be in position to be engaged and treated by the buffer 21.

After the tape has passed around the guide roller I9 in the bath chamber 8, and before it passes the guide roller 20, it will pass between two pads 28 and 29, engaging opposite faces of the tape and exercising pressure on the tape while it passes through the bath. With such pressure, these pads 28 and 29 will function as wipers and wipe the ink dissolved on the tape from the same. As the tape leaves the guide roller 20, and before it passes to the guide roller 2|, it is again passed between two pads 30 and 3| which are positioned above and out of the bath chamber 8. The pads 30 and 3| serve further to wipe and clean the tape of any ink which may still appear on the same.

From the guide roller 2|, and beforeit reaches the guide roller 22, the tape will pass between the buffer 21 and the roller 32 disposed therebeneath, such buffer 21 and roller 32 exercising pressure on the tape in opposite directions.

The buffer 21 is connected, in Fig. 3, to the motor 33 and the roller 32 is operably connected with the drive shaft 34 on which the buffer 21 is mounted by means of the reduction gears 35, 36 and 31, in mesh with one another. The gear 31 is mounted on the shaft 38 to which the roller 32 is fixed, and the gear 35 is mounted on the shaft 34. The roller 32 rotates at a much lower speed than the buffer 21 in order to retard the movement of the tape relative to the speed imparted to it by the buffer 21 so as to co-operate with the buffer 21 to perform a buifing action on the tape 2.

Above the buffer 21, there is positioned a dripping nozzle 39, which is connected with a reservoir 49, to supply a slight amount of moisture or liquid solution to the buffer 21 in order to dissolve any ink that may still remain on the tape that may have dried thereon in streaks.

The buffer 21 rotating at a higher velocity than the roller 32 will serve to dissolve and wipe off such remaining ink on the tape.

After the tape leaves the buffer 21, and before it passes over the guide roller 22, it will pass under another wiping pad 4|, which serves as an auxiliary pad to further wipe off the tape.

The heating chamber 9-is enclosed as shown by the cover member 42, through which the slots 43 and 44 are formed, the slot 43 serving as an opening for the tape 2 to enter the heating chamher 9, and the slot 44 serving as an opening for the tape 2 to leave the heating chamber 9.

For heating the chamber 9 any suitable heating means may be used, such, for instance, as hot air introduced into the heating chamber 9 through the nozzle 45.

As is usual with stock tickers, the tape is only operated and driven when a message is transmitted across the wire to operate the printing mechanism, that is, the tape is advanced an interval of distance after each printing impression or after completing a line of printed matter as is the case with sporting news tickers. Therefore, so that the buffer 21 and roller 32 may operate simultaneously with the feeding mechanism of the ticker 3 in which case the buffer 21 constitutes a drawing means, exercising a drawing action on the tape in the direction of travel of the tape, the motor 33 is preferably connected to the solenoid 5| of the ticker by the conductors 46 and 41. Thus obviously as the solenoid 5| is energized whenever a message is transmitted, the armature of the solenoid 5| will serve as a switch to close the current and cause the motor 33 to operate. Obviously also when the transmission of the message ceases, the solenoid will be de-energized releasing the armature and thus breaking the thus produced switch of the motor. With the foregoing arrangement, therefore, the electrical circuit leading to the motor 33 is closed by the solenoid 5| every time the ticker operates so that electrical energy flows to and actuates the motor 33. The motor starts up gradually due to the fact that it must overcome its own inertia as well as the resistance of the attached load (tape, pulleys, etc.) which it is driving. After the motor reaches its normal operating speed, it continues running at such speed until the ticker stops printing impressions on the tape when the solenoid 5| is de-energized and the motor circuit is opened. When the motor circuit is opened, the electrical energy flowing to the motor is cut off and the motor gradually stops. In this manner, the jerky step by step motion of the tape as it leaves the ticker is converted into a relatively smooth motion so that the tape when passing through the projecting path during the starting and stopping of the motor starts and stops gradually.

With the present invention, when it is desired to use an endless perforated film strip 48, such as illustrated in Fig. 4, the various guide rollers l0, |8, I9, 20, 2|, 22, 23 and 24 will preferably be formed like the roller 49 illustrated in Fig. 4, with prongs or teeth 52.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention, as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. The combination with a stock ticker, of a projecting machine, ink removing means, heating means, an endless tape, and feeding means for feeding said tape successively to cooperate with the ticker, a projecting machine, ink removing means and heating means to receive printed matter, project the same, remove the printed matter,

dry the tape by the heating means, and then return to the ticker for another cycle of operation.

2. The combination with a printing mechanism, of a bath, a heat containing chamber, an endless tape, feeding means for repeatedly feeding said endless tape from said printing mechanism through said bath and through said heat containing chamber, back to said printing mechanism, and guide rollers for guiding said tape while it is being fed by said feeding means.

3. The combination with a printing mechanism, of a bath, a heat containing housing, there being two slots in said heat containing housing, an endless tape, feed mechanism for actuating said endless tape, and guide rollers for guiding said tape from said printing mechanism through said bath into the heat containing housing through one of the slots of the housing, and out of the heat containing housing through the other slot thereof, back to the printing mechanism for repeat use.

4. The combination with a printing mechanism, of a bath, a heat containing housing, there being two slots in said heat containing housing, an endless tape, feed mechanism for actuating said endless tape, and guide rollers for guiding said tape from said printing mechanism through said bath into the heat containing housing through one of the slots of the housing, and out of the heat containing housing through the other slot thereof, back to the printing mechanism, and pads in engagement with said tape while it passes through said bath and as it passes from said bath to said heat containing housing to remove the ink on the tape dissolved'by the bath.

5. The combination with stock quotation, printing and projecting mechanisms, of an endless ticker tape carried by said mechanism to pass successively and repeatedly through the printing and projecting mechanisms, and means operating on the tape subsequent to its passage through the projecting mechanism and prior to its passage through the printing mechanism for removing the matter imprinted on said tape, said printing and projecting mechanism and the ink removing means being positioned close together whereby the length of tape required is reduced to a minimum.

6. The combination with an endless band, of a light aperture, ink removing means, a band drawing means for drawing the band across said light aperture then through said ink removing means, an electric motor for actuating said band drawing means, an electric switch, and means including a ticker for drawing the band from said ink removing means toward said ticker and controlling the electric switch in turn to control the actuation of said motor.

7. The combination with an endless band, of a printing mechanism adapted to print upon said band and issue the band as it is printed, a combined drawing and bufiing roller for drawing the band through said projecting machine and simultaneously cleaning the same, an electric motor to actuate said drawing means, and a switch for shutting ofi the current of said motor when said printing mechanism stops.

BARTON A. PROCTOR. 

